Oliver Stone
(Director/Writer/Producer)

In 1967, Oliver Stone enlisted in the military and served for a year in Vietnam. After returning from the war with a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, he studied film under Martin Scorsese. Two years before he won an Academy Award® for his screenplay for Midnight Express, Stone was brought in to help write the screenplay for Born on the Fourth of July. Before he could complete that project, however, he would put another Vietnam story on screen. Informed by his experience in Vietnam, Stone's Platoon was released in 1986 to critical acclaim. Platoon won him his first Academy Award® as Best Director.

Stone followed this success with another box-office blockbuster, Wall Street, for which he wrote the screenplay as well as directed. Born on the Fourth of July marked Stone's second Vietnam flick and won him his second Academy Award®. Known for tackling controversial subjects, Stone would go on to write and direct the films Natural Born Killers, Nixon, JFK and The Doors. He most recently served as executive producer, writer and director on the film Any Given Sunday and is the producer of S.W.A.T., due out in 2003.